Single women in popular culture
Subtitle: the limits of postfeminism
By: Anthea Taylor
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780230273825
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Feminist theory; Single women; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Description: "Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms,this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Theorizing Women's Singleness - Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Representation; title: From the Second Wave to Postfeminism - Single Women in Popular Discourse; title: Spinsters and Singletons - Bridget Jones's Diary and its Cultural Reverberations; title: Desperate and Dateless TV - Making Over the Single Woman; title: Self-Help and the Single Girl - From Salvation to Celebration; title: Blogging Solo - Women Refiguring Singleness; title: Bibliography; title: Index.